This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since.From the beginning North Americans were willing to invest in the infrastructure to make such connectivity possible. This... more...

This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since.From the beginning North Americans were willing to invest in the infrastructure to make such connectivity possible. This... more...